Christmas Star Ornaments to Make

My
favorite
ones right now are the
origami stars
because they were fun to learn how to make and I think they look amazing. They are a little tricky to fold though.

The
most popular
are probably the
woven paper stars
. Loads of people have written in to say how much they like them. What's neat about them is that they look so ornate and complex but they're surprisingly straightforward DIY homemade Christmas ornament to make.

Favorite DIY Homemade Christmas Ornaments

These are some of my favorite DIY Christmas ornaments that I've made - there are full step by step instructions for all of them.

The
string trees homemade Christmas ornaments
are probably the ones I'm proudest of, they just turned out so beautifully and they look great with LED candles inside them. They were a little fiddly to make, and the finished trees are a bit delicate, but I think that's part of what makes them beautiful.

The
clove oranges
smell divine and are really simple to make. The
cinnamon dough ornaments
also smell amazing. When you make them you'll want to eat them. (But please don't! Trust me they don't taste good.)

DIY Homemade Christmas Ornaments from Paper

Aside from stars, there are loads of other styles of DIY Christmas ornaments you can make from paper. I think they add a warm homely touch to your Christmas tree that you just don't get with store-bought ornaments.

My favorite of these are the classic
round paper baubles
. I just think they look really simple and elegant. They're also fairly easy to make.

My husband's favorite are the
geodesic paper baubles
. He's a mathematician so that might have something to do with it :-)

Several people have written in to say how much they like the
round paper lanterns
. The template for them is very adaptable so even though I've made them look sort of oriental you can equally well make them with Christmas colors, or make them into little orange pumpkins for Halloween.

Personalized Christmas Poster

Make a gorgeous personalized word-art poster to celebrate your family's particular Christmas traditions and bring that warm fuzzy feeling into your home this winter. Making your poster is easy using our subway-art poster generator, and we have lots of ideas to get you started.

You can also use our poster generator to make a Christmas-themed word art poster with lyrics from your favourite Christmas carols, or taken from Christmas stories and poems. There are lots of lovely Christmas colour palettes to choose from and it's a fun way to bring a touch of Christmas into your home!

DIY Christmas Ornament Crafts

I think the
pom pom snowmen
have personality and I smile every time I see them in my living room. It's fun re-arranging their hats, scarves and arms to give them different expressions.

Pipe cleaner ornaments
are fun to make with your kids, because they're so easy. You can get much more creative than just the candy canes - when you visit that page you'll see that you can make animals and all sorts of other creatures too.

The
beaded ornaments
tutorial is something that my friend Helen wrote. I think they look beautiful, and Helen says they were pretty easy to make, but I haven't tried making them myself.

Advent Calendars

Do Advent calendars count as homemade Christmas ornaments? In a way I think they do, because they're something that you hang up in the house around Christmas time.

The first one we made was the
origami Advent calendar
. A great thing about that design is how quick it is to make. There's a simple origami fold for making the pockets that literally only takes a few seconds per pocket. And I think the final calendar turned out quite nicely.

The
Advent peg wreath with chocolates
all around the outside proved to be too much temptation for Tobias and I. Despite our best intentions I'm ashamed to say that all the chocolate disappeared well before the beginning of Advent. Oops. We both have a bit of a sweet tooth.